Those who play slots regularly may wonder what happened to their
favorite slots, such as Double Diamond, Red, White and Blue, Monopoly, Triple
Diamond and Reel’em In.

These games were consistently among the most popular in
the late 1990s and early 2000s, but beginning around 2002 began to lose favor
with the fickle slot-playing public.

As far as new games on the horizon, there’s an air of
uncertainty among most casino slot managers.

According to the Goldman Sachs survey, in the previous three
years, one to three new games typically appear with double-digit responses as to
what slots the managers feel will be the most popular.

But in last year’s survey, the answers were more evenly
distributed with no single game dominating.

The two top slots this year were both WMS games. The Wizard of
Oz, a "sensory immersion" game, has been cited by the company as being
its most successful trial ever and that has shown to be a strong possibility
given the results of the survey. Super Money Grab also appears to be a very
popular game in 2008.

As far as manufacturers expected to produce the future’s most
popular games, IGT is still the industry leader with a 33 percent response rate,
up from 27 percent last year. WMS also had a strong showing as survey
respondents mentioned its games 27 percent of the time, up from 21 percent last
year.